After mulling the possibilities over, the Obama administration decides to send more troops to the Middle East. Facing perhaps another Vietnam-like situation and after months of deliberation, 34,000 more soldiers are to be deployed to Afghanistan over the next year.

According to the Raw Story:

Late on Monday Obama held the ninth and last in a series of meetings with top commanders to examine the troubled war effort.

The results of those discussions are now widely expected to be made public next Tuesday, although a White House official said "nothing had been confirmed" about the timing of the announcement.

Obama has been weighing requests from the military top brass for tens of thousands of extra troops to be deployed.

"As it now stands," McClatchy writes,"the plan calls for the deployment over a nine-month period beginning in March of three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky., and the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y., and a Marine brigade from Camp Lejeune, N.C., for as many as 23,000 additional combat and support troops.